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8-Orono Weekly limes. Wedncesday, January 30. 1985 Juniî#ors Recei ve Service A wards Heleni Robinson, leader of the Orono Junior Gardeners presents Horticulture Service ANYONE FOR LIFE IN THE SINGLES LANE????? Getting back into the groove of the sngles lane is a task flot easity accomplished. After having been just plain' miother and housewife for years, you tend to forget the coquettishness, flirtations and womnanly wiles of your youth. After separation and fed up with staring at the four wvatts of. home, 1 finatly managed to snag a date (by asking him) of att things. CaI it forward, impulsive, daring or desperate, the fact remain- ed I put both feet in my mnouth, _gutped a few times and finally whispered a hur- ried and harried "woutd you like to go out sometime?", Pin sure 1 must have turned him off îmmrediatety bhecause the date took three mnonths to actually take place. By now my self assurance had dropped to nil wondering if maybe at the tîme of the proposition 1 had had spinach stuck between my teeth or maybe my deodorant. had hit a low. Eventually there was the phone catI and we were off to a dinner theatre. Nerves are something 1 haven't mnany of and what's there is usually frayed. I waited anxiously for himi to pull in the driveway remin- ding myseif of a'dozen littie things along the line of femnininity. The night started al wrong. i \wore a dress and high, highi heels, He's taîl. Getting into a corvette at ground tevet wiith a dress on is upsurd. I coutld have dropped to miy knees ithen suid in t sup- pose, buLt ;t miiaaed somnehow, to gelI one leg caughit on the t: side -white the other straddled t he inside. Awards to two young members, Sahri La Mothe 1 grinned sheepishly, snagged my heet on the door jamn just before he slammed it shut. I talked aIl the way over, neyer stoppîng for breath; my sentences wheezing out at the end. He must have thought 1 was daft. Reserved table, wining and dining. This xas beginning to look posh. He said ittie. (He's aquiet guy.) So quiet in fact that he didn't tell me t had spiatterd satad dressing down the front of my dress. A stain that was fast making its own trail and not in a discreet way. He was galtant and tried not to smile. In my embarrassment, confusion took over. 1 fumbled with the rest of the meal, trying to hide my qualms. Fidgeting, r crossed by legs under the table thereby wrenching a tremendous hote in my stock- ing. My knee, bare and bony glared through. If I could have slunk to the floor and crawled out the door, I would have gl adly done so. What an utter predicament! The night only haîf over and t was a shredded mess. He was by now laughing and yet at the same time trying to keep a strai ght face. My first date in years and I looked like 1 had just emerged front the barn. What's worse, the otheroc- cupants were noticing My ob- vious signs of distress. 1 squirmed through the theatre part very conscious of myself. Glad at tast that it was ail over, 1 hurried up the aisle thinking it came to a door. . .it didn't. It came in- stead to a set of stairs Ieading down.By mere intuition or perhaps he was beginning to know me already, he grabbed myý arm justbefore 1 was about tîo embark on a not-so- gracefuLl swani dive head first. Som1eh)ow hleuseelm and Robin Robinson. The presentation was made at the annual meeing of the senior Society. C ? 1*16) U*-8*19 by Mike Singleton AWAITING YOUR DISCOVERY Silently t hey poise. Every muscle stilled, like somne over- wound spring. Ready at an instant to explode into ac-- tion. She beneath a snow- mantfled leanto. He amid the catecomibs that have been 'home' to, countlless genera- tions before. Peacefuýlly, they await dusk's indly gloom, under whose cover thiey can -finally - venture forth. Ontario's, hares and rabbit - there are3 related species - are highly ýefficient in utiliz- ing vegettion. Feeding in- cessantly/ on grasses, suc- culents, leaves and anything green dluring the summer, they s/Witch to buds, twigs and bark in winter, B3ecause they're so efficient at conver- ting this material into pro- tein, and so prolific, they provide the important food case for most of our targer predators - lynx, cougar, fox, wolves, coyote and great horned owls, to name a few. through mazes of feet and out towards the car. 1 crawled into the car, no longer caring if it was lady-like or not. 1 said very little on the way home. What was there to say? Apologize for having shown 1 was a KLUTZ. 1 was in the singles lane and no longer knew how to play the game. Ail the confidence of my youth had evaporated over the years. This was a dif- ferent garne from diapers, cooking and fighting the grocery stampede. I was mid- dled aged, single and could rattle on incessantly about whooping couch1 and its various symptoms, but forget how to be poised, catm and demurring while playing the dating gamie. There was a brighit notetouh he asked me out again. Probably becauise I made him luh Reciprocally, the pressure of th)ese predators cecides whichi species, eachi with its own adaptations, wllbe eaten least-often in a g,-iven settinge. The snowshoe hare changes colouir - darkbrw in summner, almo1st pure- white in winter. A laniky animal of' moderate ize- (1-2 kg), it bas dlistinictive", very large feet. Ail of th-ese character istics adapt t welt to, thîckets, for)est. s, wamips and mixed- agricuttuý,ral coun- tryside e.g. where it can readily move aboui t i p-to- 10-acre range. The Europeanl Hare, istngished immediatety byý its huge (3-5 kg) ize, is brownish gr-ley year-rounmd, with a baktpe tail. Col- .onizing large, open expanses, it can ither ouitruin or beat- off most predators. it cani open -nearly 5 meters in a single bound, and achieve speeds of 60 kph. The eastern cottontait is in- stantly distinguished by its cottony white tait, which con- trasts sharpty with the brown or grey compact-looking body. The diminitive cotton- tait thrives in 'littie' settings, occupying every patch of ground with a few square feet of cover and a grassy or shrubby area in which to browse. Alil nocturnat - for best protection from predators - these mammals establish a feeding range arouind a lair or burrow. Most often, their lair is simply a protected locale beneath a low buIsh, a drap- ing everygreen branch, or a slash pile. Comne spring, these sites will be used f'or 'niests';, somne species building simple grass structures, while others simp- ly 'drop' their youing in pro- tected- sites or ordinary- looking vegetation. Unlike mnost mammnals, rabbits andc hares stay awaY from thleir young, most of the time, Reductions of 10% to 50% on selected Handmade Work and Antiques ai the Orono Showcase Co-operative Corner of Churich and Park Streets, Orono February 2nd and 3rd, 10 a.m. fo 5 p.m. Oirono Fuel & Lumber Orono, Ontiano - Phone 9%3-9167 Your Local Agent for Mason Windows & Doors are having a Mînd-Wînter S%:ale Tii Feb. 15, 1985 - No payment until spting This is the year's best price. Bring your plans or ideas. -Sée Arm hch Metar n Skirts Pants $1 0.00 Jackets REGULAR TO $21 .95 THIREE ONLY WTNTER COA TS 1-11/12 - -$150-00 Reg. $199.95 1-7--$ 80.00 Reg. $1 19.50 1-15 Petite - - $100.00 Reg. $145.00 JeiVl Fash ions MAIN STREET, ORONO For Richer For -Poorer Column by Viki Bates